How many Dodge Tradesman are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1977 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Tradesman was the name for the cargo versions of Dodge's full-size B-series van through the 1970s; the windowed passenger version was the Sportsman. Cheap, roomy and available with V8s, these were among the vans at the centre of the American custom van craze, with murals, shag carpet and porthole windows.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1977.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Dodge Tradesman is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 59th of the 61 Dodge models and equal 2,668th of all 2,903 cars in Spotto's catalogue.
The six grades: Common, 8,000 or more · Uncommon, 1,200 to 7,999 · Scarce, 175 to 1,199 · Rare, 25 to 174 · Super rare, 5 to 24 · Unicorn, fewer than 5.
Seen one?
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